My plum trees are starting to bloom and so is this interesting flower. There’s a California Dutchman’s Pipe flower growing in the tree in the center.
California Dutchman’s Pipe flowers
It’s like the name implies, little Dutch type pipes, lots of them.
blooming plum trees
I have a lot of wild plum trees just starting to bloom.
Digging the trail ditch for the spring water pipe
I hung around in he yard just getting some sun until about 1 when I hopped on the quad runner and drove it up into the hills where I’ve been working on my spring water pipe burial project to continue the work, digging a trail ditch for the pipe.
Work area
I made my way up this ravine where I’m left off working yesterday.
I had about a hundred feet to dig today if I could make it. I started here and continued on down the hill to just above that road down there where I’ll tie into the valves just above the water tanks.
Digging away
I got this part dug going down a steep part with lots of rocks and roots. It’s steeper than the camera shows and I slid down the hill a lot until I got the trail ditch dug.
Big roots
It took longer than I thought it would as I also had to dig around these big tree roots along the way.
Heard voices
I was resting up there when I heard some voices. It turned out to be my neighbor with her son going for a walk up the hill. I asked if they came up to help me out and all I got was too steep. :O)
Made it to the end
I made it to the end here where I turned the trail onto another pipe trail ditch from another spring which I can follow the short distance to the valve assembly just off to the right and out of sight.
By the time I go the trail ditch done I was too beat to place the pipe in the ditch and bury it, so I decided that was enough work for one day.
This is the valve assembly where my two spring lines meet just about the water tanks. I do have one other pipe line to do but I’m thinking next year maybe. I do have a lot of the other water line already dug, about half of it so maybe that part will get buried this year or maybe not. Each water line is about a thousand feet long coming down the hill.
Good spring water
Of course I got a drink of water at the valves before hopping on the quad runner and heading on home for the day.
Once home it was in the house for a nap and that was my day.
My goodness you get a lot done in a day! That must be what keeps you young! :)
I LOVE those Dutch pipe flowers!
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A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
My goodness you get a lot done in a day! That must be what keeps you young! :)
I LOVE those Dutch pipe flowers!